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Planet Earth Home Page

links to more resources about plaents

Views of the Solar System

by Calvin J. Hamilton, has been created as an educational tour of the solar system. It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids found within the solar system.

Welcome To The Planets

is a collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program. The collection has been extracted from the interactive program "Welcome to the Planets" which was distributed on the Planetary Data System Educational CD-ROM in January 1995. The Nine Planets

by Bill Arnett, "is an essay about our solar system with text, pictures, sounds and an occasional movie. Each of the planets and major moons in our solar system is briefly described and illustrated with pictures from NASA spacecraft."

Country Specific Information

from TradeWave Galaxy is a list of sites to and about different countries

Country Studies/Area Handbook Program

from the U.S. Library of Congress

City.Net

"the most comprehensive international guide to communities around the world. City.Net is updated every day to provide easy and timely access to information on travel, entertainment, and local business, plus government and community services for all regions of the world."

Maps and Data

DeLorme Mapping

specializes in mapping software and databases for the consumer, education, business, and government markets, and also publishes printed atlases of individual states.

Making Maps Easy to Read

summarizes a research project to discover some of the factors that make maps easy to read and to use. It was conducted at University College London, at the Royal College of Art and at the University of Nottingham.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

from the University of Texas at Austin, holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the world.

PARC Web Map Viewer

from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is an experiment in providing dynamic information retrieval via the World Wide Web (W3) and clients like NCSA Mosaic. The Map Viewer is an HTTP server that accepts requests for map renderings and returns an HTML document including an inlined GIF image of the requested map.

Source San Diego Map

Tour this beautiful county with this clickable map, or zoom in to the Central San Diego Map

U.S. Gazateer

is a gateway between the Geographic Name Server at martini.eecs.umich.edu:3000 and the World Wide Web, with links to maps from Xerox. See also MIT Geographical Name Server

Canada Official Geographic Names Database

an interactive and authoritative source of over 500,000 geographical names in Canada, maintained by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN). By combining this server and the Canadian Geographical Names Data Base (CGNDB), we are providing a simple reference service which includes basic locational information and maps that are easy to download.

Travel Tales

Foreign Languages for Travellers This page was created in order to help travellers learn a few essentials of a foreign language and thereby enable basic communication while travelling. There is a list of common words and phrases translated into the language you choose; sound files are associated with each so you can hear what that word or phrase sounds like.

Great Outdoor Recreation (GORP)

features descriptions of most of the U.S. National Parks, Forests and Wilderness Areas. The site also contains information on a number of outdoor activities (such as hiking, biking, climbing, fishing, paddlesports, skiing, caving, etc.) and includes pointers to city/state/country pages which include outdoor recreation and travel information.

Travelers' Reading Room

is a collection of pointers to travel journals on the Internet.

Road Trip USA

records the best "Blue Highways", or secondary roads, that criss-cross the world's best road-trip country, America.

Travels with Samantha

by Philip Greenspun, "This book is about the summer I spent seeing North America, meeting North Americans, and trying to figure out how people live," writes Greenspun after losing his companion. You'll come face to face with examples of the stunning ethnic, scenic, and cultural richness of the continent.

Round-the-World Travel Guide

is an extensive compilation of tips from travellers.

TravelWeb

is the starting point for you to explore an electronic catalog of brochures featuring hotels, motels, inns, resorts -- every facet of the lodging world. Very soon, you also will be able to check the availability of rooms and book your room via TravelWeb!

More than Four Corners

a visit to some of the less trampled/more scenic places in Arizona

Voyage to Another Universe - 1994

by Karen G. Strom, is a narrative and picture book of a journey through the American Southwest and the Native American sites in Arizona dn New Mexico.